How to Use humorless in a Sentence

humorless

adjective

• The cat stares back at her with his small, humorless cat face.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 3 May 2021
• Brunettes, on the other hand, have a more humorless vibe.
  — Donna Freydkin, Allure, 14 Sep. 2017
• In today’s mostly humorless world, there are too few top-of-the-line satirists.
  — Richard E. Vatz, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2024
• The most obvious piece of advice is not to be grim and humorless.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2021
• His art is, sure enough, humorless, albeit in a teen-age way that is kind of funny.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
• In fifth grade my homeroom teacher was William Younger, a prim, rather humorless man.
  — Dahlia Bazzaz, The Seattle Times, 3 May 2017
• Critics jumped all over the idea, labeling the women hairy-legged and humorless.
  — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 23 May 2018
• Soon the Baxters and the humorless Dutch couple who unwisely joined them are running for their lives, pursued by the evil O’Neills.
  — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 27 May 2022
• The Yankees have won more titles than any other franchise in sports, which is why the Yankees are the most humorless franchise in sports.
  — Devin Gordon, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2021
• Valente’s face went blank and a sudden humorless fire appeared on it.
  — Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
• That elicited a laugh from the audience, men being the only acceptable punchline to the humorless scolds in the crowd.
  — John Hirschauer, National Review, 14 Oct. 2019
• There is much eye-gouging, throat-stabbing, and calf-slashing along the way; this movie is not for the faint of heart, and most of its violence is grimly humorless.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
• Speaking that, the humorless out of touch American left.
  — Fox News, 6 Mar. 2018
• Compared with more jovial sea lions and seals, even scientists have long thought of the 1.5-ton walrus as the most humorless pinniped.
  — Andrey Giljov, National Geographic, 29 Dec. 2016
• Cue scenes of humorless mid-air wrestling, shake vigorously, wait for the sequel.
  — Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2022
• Here’s another forlorn hope for Tuesday night: Might this self-absorbed, humorless man show a flash or two of a lighter side?
  — Albert R. Hunt, The Denver Post, 27 Feb. 2017
• Righting wrongs — and there are always more than enough to choose from — is virtuous, if sometimes humorless.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
• What’s strange is that the social media giant stands by its humorless AI filter’s judgment.
  — Kyle Mann, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2020
• Her style, though largely humorless, is fluent and sharply focused, with paragraphs that flow at the brisk pace of an adventure novel.
  — Guy Denton, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
• These sequels weren’t humorless, but their jokes served to emphasize the crew’s camaraderie.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 25 June 2021
• Pop-culture depictions of the ballet world may paint its artists as humorless (and underfed, and oversexed).
  — New York Times, 5 Feb. 2021
• Yet writers are eager to join in the jokes about the humorless prude who wants to stifle academic freedom, rather than trying to understand the whole story.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2010
• Here — sneakily, playfully, like a kid planting a whoopee cushion on a humorless teacher’s chair — is where the boredom comes in.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2023
• Anarumo offered a humorless chuckle when asked about the topic on Monday.
  — Michael Niziolek, cleveland, 25 Jan. 2023
• Contrary to popular belief, the Swiss are not humorless or repressed.
  — Adam H. Graham, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2018
• The show stealer turns out to be a deadpan Andre Braugher, playing the squad’s gay, black captain as an admirable but humorless father figure.
  — Alexandra Samuel, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
• A lot of money has been poured into selling VR as the future of work, with humorless videos of Mark Zuckerberg advancing a bleak vision of face-sized cubicles.
  — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022
• Winners droned on with a laundry list of thank-yous, reminiscing with obscure anecdotes and humorless jokes.
  — Merrie Spaeth, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2023
• And losing to the Jets — especially these hapless Jets, led by the humorless Adam Gase — is never an acceptable outcome.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Jan. 2021
• To put Muslim women in a punk band would challenge the stereotype that Muslim women are submissive, quiet, humorless.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 26 May 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024